Word: armament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Risky Course. The arms that Nasser needs are tanks, jet planes, heavy artillery and a few naval craft. Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda armament works, now named for Lenin and controlled by the Soviet army, is well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...
...have lived through the subsequent decade without another world war. That is something for which we should be profoundly thankful. But true peace has not been enjoyed. There have been limited wars; free nations have been subverted and taken over; there has been the piling up of armament, and there have been rigidities of position which are imposed upon those who regard each other as potential fighting enemies...
...Roman Catholic Church has turned thumbs down on the Moral Re-Armament movement. In Washington, D.C. the National Catholic Welfare Conference's press department, clearing house of all U.S.-Catholic public information, issued a pointed résumé of "important Church documents recently released in various parts of the world." Heart of the résumé: a letter to all bishops from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office at the Vatican. Excerpt: "It is not fitting for ... priests, and much less for nuns, to participate in the meetings of Moral Re-Armament, [nor should] the faithful...
...Moral Re-Armament: I have just read your July 18 article and subsequent letters to the Editor with regard to the 'junket" that 192 of the faithful have been making to the Far East and Africa. I had the greatest sympathy with the American taxpayer when I saw three U.S.A.F. transports at Nairobi ... I think it is disgraceful that Moral Re-Armament's The Vanishing Island should have been allowed to be put on at the National Theatre of Nairobi-whose charter clearly states that nothing of a political flavour can be shown in it. The play...
Concerning M.R.A.'s play: the use of U.S. Air Force planes to carry the germs of Moral Re-Armament to Asia is a typical example of Mr. Buchman's skulduggery because it implies U.S. Government sanction of the movement...